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University of California Tells Students Not To Use WeChat, WhatsApp In China (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Students and faculty at the University of California (UC) have been warned not to use messaging apps and social media while visiting China, for fear their communications could be used against them by the country's law enforcement agencies. The guidance from one of the biggest school networks in the U.S. is the latest concern to be raised over Western travel to China following the December 1 arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at the request of U.S. authorities.
The UC guidance also appeared to reference the case of Paul Whelan, a U.S. citizen arrested in Russia last month on suspicion of espionage. "While the use of WhatsApp, WeChat and like messaging apps are legal in China, we have seen in the latest espionage charge of a U.S. citizen in Russia where the use of WhatsApp has been cited in his espionage charges," read an email seen by CNN. "Our concern here is the possibility China could use this condition similarly against western travelers to levy charges or as an excuse to deny departure. We recommend not using these messaging apps in China at this time."
The UC guidance also appeared to reference the case of Paul Whelan, a U.S. citizen arrested in Russia last month on suspicion of espionage. "While the use of WhatsApp, WeChat and like messaging apps are legal in China, we have seen in the latest espionage charge of a U.S. citizen in Russia where the use of WhatsApp has been cited in his espionage charges," read an email seen by CNN. "Our concern here is the possibility China could use this condition similarly against western travelers to levy charges or as an excuse to deny departure. We recommend not using these messaging apps in China at this time."
Get used to it.
China also calls itself a Republic. So does North Korea.
Does that make them Republican?
You pretty much have to use WeChat in China. Most others are banned.
But you need to be constantly aware that everything you post might be read and possibly misinterpreted by a paranoid censor who may mark it against you. Unlikely to be arrested, but you may not be let back into the country.
So keep it very clean and simple.
This is exactly the same behaviour that you should also use with western social media. The problem is not nearly as bad, but it still exists. So going to China is probably a good thing in teaching discipline.
Isn't that true everywhere? In fact, doesn't the US currently have a policy where agents are allowed to access everything on any device that you bring into or out of the US without even any reason for suspicion?
The problem is not that the Chinese police may access your device it is that they are looking extremely hard for any, even trivial, violation of their laws so they can arrest you to try and get leverage against the US just like they have been doing with Canada.
North Korea calls itself the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Does that make them Democrat?
Have gnu, will travel.
as residents of Mexico currently face sentencing based on evidence collected from their use of the FlexiSpy mobile app. And that is even if their travel to the US is involuntary, as Mr. Guzmán told us.
But feel free to use the apps in the USA, the land of the free, where the NSA has either hacked or forced their way into the apps via secret national security letters.
The reason why we refuse to discuss anything with people like you is because you canâ(TM)t speak without resorting to insults and slurs.
You say anyone who disagrees with you is an idiot. That is what is closing the door to discussion. When you realize that your worldview is not the only one that exists and can conduct yourself in a professional and respectful manner then we will talk.
Until that time just keep doing what you are doing and so shall we.
We should know by now that China severely monitors dissenters there using WeChat. But WhatsAPP supposedly has end-to-end encryption in which case how are they monitoring that app? Of course we know Facebook owns WhatsApp so have they created a special version for China with a backdoor?
Why would someone even want to go to China? They can arrest you just because they feel like it and you don't have any recourse. Not my idea of fun.
People disappear in China HOURLY
Citation needed.
Probably I link to a blog with run-on sentences and a high ALL-CAPS to words ratio at realtruthyredbloodedpatriotfreedomnews.blogspot.com titled "You Won't Believe What Happens in Commie China! The Incoming Yellow Peril11".
All I can hear is the sound of propaganda against a rival economy - there seems to be a steady stream of these negative stories aiming to support a narrative that China is somehow worse than all other big countries, and not a good place to do business.
We went to China on holiday in September, cruised down the Yangtze (Chang Jiang) through the 3 gorges visited Chengdu and ChongQing. I can tell you this is a modern, prosperous country with friendly people, a long fascinating history - and a great future ahead.
We used Wechat, etc etc without problems, and I have little doubt that many different countries (and some companies) have full access to everything on our accounts. I do doubt that anyone is combing through the material to find reasons to arrest tourists. If anyone has a list of actual arrests, please share it . . . .
According to Marx's definitions, no nation-state has ever been communist in form. (In fact, the fact there is a formal nation-state contract-indicates a communist society. Socialism is state control of the means of production (weather nominally private or public), whereas communism is a utopia anarchic state where the means of production are freely available to all, and the output taken as needed by anyone. Marx says a socialist revolution is the first step to communism, but the transition to the second state never occurs, and the established party resists attempts to push further.
No, it's just marketing. The PR is the a Republican (representative) and democratic (elected) government is better than all others. It's like all new tech products are claimed to be "disruptive innovations". The full/traditional party names of the major U.S. parties are Democratic Republicans, and the Republican Democrats, and before 1930 the Democratic Republicans were really into the republican highlights (separation of powers, checks and balances, limited government, the party of Jefferson and Jackson) and the Republican democrats were into the will of the people stuff (central regulation, infrastructure projects, popular reforms, the party of Lincoln, McKinley and Teddy Rosevelt). Sometime between WWI and FDR they did a flip though and the shortened names were more apt.
However trying to classify foreign parties in terms of U.S parties isn't really that helpful because of that flip, and because the U.S. history and circumstance is going to be different that what you're comparing to.
Perhaps you should read some Marx, Lenin or Hitler; their movements were considered socialism (more extreme versions of the French socialist philosophers). Communism is just a socialist government taken to its end goal, as Marx clearly stated in his communist manifesto, democratic capitalism must fail through the mechanism of democratic socialism in order to bring about communism (dictatorship by the masses/proletariat).
Socialism is a great idea, if you have unlimited funds (or energy) and there is no reason for anyone to ever need something from someone else.
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